Try to stop slides at Coulee project. - Further attempts to stop slides above the east side excavation pit were carried on today. Following the 40,000-cubic-yard slide of a week ago, a trench is being dug horizontally above the slide. This, it is...

Fear more slides in Grand Coulee region. - The slide area again was cracking today threatening the coming of more slides after the engineers had begun to breath easier. Shovels have been busy sloping the area, but fear has been expressed that...

Slides delay Coulee work. - Construction of the east-side concrete mixing plant at Grand Coulee dam is nearly completed, but slides in the deep crevice behind the cofferdam have been so large that the plant will probably not be used this summer,...

Excavation to halt slides at damsite. - An excavation crew is speeding work as rapidly as high water permits to eliminate earth slides on the east side of the Columbia river at the Grand Coulee dam project.

Coulee dam - Trench is dug to end slides. - Intended to divert water on east side--Projects for WPA proposed. - A trench is being excavated under the supervision of the bureau of reclamation on the slope above the east side excavation pit, where a...

Coulee dam - Drainage works hold up slides. - Flow now but six gallons a minute--Rock leaps among workmen. - The efficiency of the drainage system of tunnels under the granite bedrock in the slide area was strikingly prove today when engineers said...

Slides hamper work on east side of dam. - Another slide occurred in the east side excavation pit last Friday, again hampering the clearing of the dam site's deepest crevice, far below the east side granite floor.

Coulee dam - Slides on east to be detoured. - Hill to be resloped to protect deep pit--1,650,000 meals have been served. - There will be no more sliding of earth on the east shore of the river, if the work of the USBR and the contractors...

Slides hamper work on east side of dam. - Another slide occurred in the east side excavation pit last Friday, again hampering the clearing of the dam site's deepest crevice, far below the east side granite floor.

Remove overchanging dirt to prevent slides blocking Coulee rail-highway. - Because the hillside above the Coulee dam slid down once, engineers figure it may do the sma thing again. So when Crick & Kuney started building the rail-highway grade from...

Slides threaten road to dam site. - Although it is not expected to cause any further difficulties, the new dam site highway, built by Crick & Kuney, was at one point only a one-way thoroughfare yesterday, due to continued crumbling of the road bed...

Snowslides menace much mine property Damage to power lines and highways halt some operations Snowslides have caused some damage in the district the past week, the result of a brief thaw. Numerous slides were reported but damage was confined...

All not roses on Coulee dam. - Slides and boulders make problems--"Green" labor well handled. - All is not roses in the path of the builders of the Grand Coulee dam, and many problems have kept either the bureau of reclamation or the contractors...

Water in clay cause. - Engineers declare that the slides, which are occuring even on the slopes of gradual incline, are due to water in the clay substrata. The bureau has plentifully sprinkled the dam site on both sides of the river with wells and...

More landslides at Coulee dam. - Slides that have been bothering the contractors in the east side excavation pit have not yet been conquered, it appears. The company had built timber and concrete retaining walls to hold back the earth from sliding...